Tinker S Sea

Author : Stephen B. Pearl
Publisher : Brain Lag
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781928011156

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Tinker's Sea by Stephen B. Pearl Pdf

Oil reserves depleted. Society collapsed. A few places cling to modern technology. For everywhere else, there are the Tinkers. In southern Ontario, Novo Gaia uses sustainable energy to support its citizens in comfort. From there, Novo Gaia sends Doctors of Applied General Technology, tinkers, into the Dark Lands to install everything from solar stills to televisions—and make a profit. After twenty years as an E.R. nurse, Tabitha “Tabby” Drivensky’s failing marriage sent her into the tinker program and the open waters of the Great Lakes. While fulfilling her Coast Guard service obligation, she rescues a boy named Andy Camble from a sinking ship. Andy turns out to have vital information on Packer, a pirate captain who has been plaguing the Great Lakes for generations in an ancient, nuclear-powered submarine. Using Andy’s intelligence, Tabby sets out ostensibly to scout out a new aquatic tinker route along Lake Huron but secretly assigned by Novo Gaia to find and put an end to Packer once and for all.

Author : W.J. Kirwin,G. M. Story,J.D.A. Widdowson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990-11-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781442690653

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Dictionary of Newfoundland English by W.J. Kirwin,G. M. Story,J.D.A. Widdowson Pdf

The Dictionary of Newfoundland English, first published in 1982 to regional, national, and international acclaim, is a historical dictionary that gives the pronunciations and definitions for words that the editors have called "Newfoundland English." The varieties of English spoken in Newfoundland date back four centuries, mainly to the early seventeenth-century migratory English fishermen of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, and to the seventeenth- to the nineteenth-century immigrants chiefly from southeastern Ireland. Culled from a vast reading of books, newspapers, and magazines, this book is the most sustained reading ever undertaken of the written words of this province. The dictionary gives not only the meaning of words, but also presents each word with its variant spellings. Moreover, each definition is succeeded by an all-important quotation of usage which illustrates the typical context in which word is used. This well-researched, impressive work of scholarship illustrates how words and phrases have evolved and are used in everyday speech and writing in a specific geographical area. The Dictionary of Newfoundland English is one of the most important, comprehensive, and thorough works dealing with Newfoundland. Its publication, a great addition to Newfoundlandia, Canadiana, and lexicography, provides more than a regional lexicon. In fact, this entertaining and delightful book presents a panoramic view of the social, cultural, and natural history, as well as the geography and economics, of the quintessential lifestyle of one of Canada's oldest European-settled areas. This second edition contains a supplement offering approximately 1500 new or expanded entries, an increase of more than 30 per cent over the first edition. Besides new words, the supplement includes modified and additional senses of old words and fresh derivations and usages.

Author : Mary Burke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191570612

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'Tinkers' by Mary Burke Pdf

The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinker represented bohemian, pre-Celtic aboriginality, functioning as the cultural nationalist counter to the Victorian Gypsy mania. Long misunderstood as a portrayal of actual Travellers, J.M. Synge's influential The Tinker's Wedding was pivotal to this 'Irishing' of the tinker, even as it acknowledged that figure's cosmopolitan textual roots. Synge's empathetic depiction is closely examined, as are the many subsequent representations that looked to him as a model to subvert or emulate. In contrast to their Revival-era romanticization, post-independence writing portrayed tinkers as alien interlopers, while contemporaneous Unionists labelled them a contaminant from the hostile South. However, after Travellers politicized in the 1960s, more even-handed depictions heralded a querying of the 'tinker' fantasy that has shaped contemporary screen and literary representations of Travellers and has prompted Traveller writers to transubstantiate Otherness into the empowering rhetoric of ethnic difference. Though its Irish equivalent has oscillated between idealization and demonization, US racial history facilitates the cinematic figuring of the Irish-American Traveler as lovable 'white trash' rogue. This process is informed by the mythology of a population with whom Travelers are allied in the white American imagination, the Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots). In short, the 'tinker' is much more central to Irish, Northern Irish and even Irish-American identity than is currently recognised.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025225762

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The Momus; Or, Annual Songster; Containing Popular Sea Songs by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Whyte Macdonald,Chris Newman,Lauren A. Harrington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198759805

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Biology and Conservation of Musteloids by David Whyte Macdonald,Chris Newman,Lauren A. Harrington Pdf

The musteloids are the most diverse super-family among carnivores, ranging from little known, exotic, and highly-endangered species to the popular and familiar, and include a large number of introduced invasives. They feature terrestrial, fossorial, arboreal, and aquatic members, ranging from tenacious predators to frugivorous omnivores, span weights from a 100g weasel to 30kg giant otters, and express a range of social behaviours from the highly gregarious to the fiercely solitary. Musteloids are the subjects of extensive cutting-edge research from phylogenetics to the evolution of sociality and through to the practical implications of disease epidemiology, introduced species management, and climate change. Their diversity and extensive biogeography inform a wide spectrum of ecological theory and conservation practice. The editors of this book have used their combined 90 years of experience working on the behaviour and ecology of wild musteloids to draw together a unique network of the world's most successful and knowledgeable experts. The book begins with nine review chapters covering hot topics in musteloid biology including evolution, disease, social communication, and management. These are followed by twenty extensive case studies providing a range of comprehensive geographic and taxonomic coverage. The final chapter synthesises what has been discussed in the book, and reflects on the different and diverse conservation needs of musteloids and the wealth of conservation lessons they offer. Biology and Conservation of Musteloids provides a conceptual framework for future research and applied conservation management that is suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in musteloid and carnivore ecology and conservation biology. It will also be of relevance and use to conservationists and wildlife managers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2152 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : IND:30000099548160

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Delegated legislation
ISBN : UCR:31210024873976

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Federal Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gregory Dana Bossart,Alvin Cyril Camus,Debra Lee Miller,Stephen Raverty
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889743124

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Pathologic Findings in Stranded Marine Mammals: A Global Perspective by Gregory Dana Bossart,Alvin Cyril Camus,Debra Lee Miller,Stephen Raverty Pdf

This project is posthumously dedicated to Dr. Gregory Dana Bossart. Whether you knew him as colleague, mentor, friend, family member or simply ‘knew of him’, you could not help but be awestruck by his dedication, intelligence, thoughtfulness, work ethic and passion for scientific inquiry, especially for conservation of the marine environment Many of his publications were seminal in marine mammal health, including infectious, environmental and zoonotic diseases. As we collected manuscripts for this special Frontiers edition, it was heartwarming to hear the comments from contributors. So many research scientists, field biologists and veterinarians could easily have given up and said, ‘I just can’t do this now’, especially with the added challenges posed by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, contributors from around the world were determined to contribute to this collection because of their inspiration and shared commitment with Greg’s vision. The love and admiration within the marine community for Greg is phenomenal. With that said, we would be remiss if we did not say a few words about Greg as a mentor and friend. Greg had a knack for helping students realize their abilities and pursue their own independent contributions to the marine mammal community. He shared in their successes and worked tirelessly to facilitate their aspirations. Greg would involve students, early-career scientists and colleagues in projects, introduce them to collaborators and promote them and their work. Greg was a genuinely caring person. When he asked you ‘how are you doing’, he honestly wanted to know. He was always there, ready to listen and provide guidance. If you were to ask Greg what was most important to him in life, he would say God, family and marine life (and one could argue that he had a special fondness for manatees). He believed in the beauty of nature and that God had a hand in all of it. He was in pursuit of ensuring that we all share this earth responsibly and sustainably. We miss Greg dearly, but honor and celebrate him as we carry on in our pursuits.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008374857

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Air Corps News Letter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Gardner Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Northwest, Pacific
ISBN : IND:30000048967701

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The Oregonian's Handbook of the Pacific Northwest by Edward Gardner Jones Pdf

History and biography of the Pacific Northwest; local history for towns in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia.

Author : Guido Visconti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030747138

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Climate, Planetary and Evolutionary Sciences by Guido Visconti Pdf

This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content. Questions and related keywords were prepared for the machine to query, discover, collate and structure by Artificial Intelligence (AI) clustering. The AI-based approach seemed especially suitable to provide an innovative perspective as the topics are indeed both complex, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, for example, climate, planetary and evolution sciences. Springer Nature has published much on these topics in its journals over the years, so the challenge was for the machine to identify the most relevant content and present it in a structured way that the reader would find useful. The automatically generated literature summaries in this book are intended as a springboard to further discoverability. They are particularly useful to readers with limited time, looking to learn more about the subject quickly and especially if they are new to the topics. Springer Nature seeks to support anyone who needs a fast and effective start in their content discovery journey, from the undergraduate student exploring interdisciplinary content, to Master- or PhD-thesis developing research questions, to the practitioner seeking support materials, this book can serve as an inspiration, to name a few examples. It is important to us as a publisher to make the advances in technology easily accessible to our authors and find new ways of AI-based author services that allow human-machine interaction to generate readable, usable, collated, research content.

Author : Paul Harding
Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942658610

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Tinkers by Paul Harding Pdf

Special edition of Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel—featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past, where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. The story behind this New York Times bestselling debut novel—the first independently published Pulitzer Prize winner since A Confederacy of Dunces received the award nearly thirty years before—is as extraordinary as the elegant prose within it. Inspired by his family’s history, Paul Harding began writing Tinkers when his rock band broke up. Following numerous rejections from large publishers, Harding was about to shelve the manuscript when Bellevue Literary Press offered a contract. After being accepted by BLP, but before it was even published, the novel developed a following among independent booksellers from coast to coast. Readers and critics soon fell in love, and it went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize, prompting the New York Times to declare the novel’s remarkable success “the most dramatic literary Cinderella story of recent memory.” That story is still being written as readers across the country continue to discover this modern classic, which has now sold over half a million copies, proving once again that great literature has a thriving and passionate audience. Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family: Enon and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tinkers. He teaches at Stony Brook Southampton.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : WISC:89094395514

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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Barclay (Curate of Edmonton.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021806819

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Barclay's English Dictionary. With which is incorporated a complete modern gazetteer, a beautiful atlas of maps and also a pronouncing dictionary by James Barclay (Curate of Edmonton.) Pdf

Author : Timothy H. Lanier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Floodplains
ISBN : UOM:39015055734076

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Determination of the 100-year Flood Plain on Upper Three Runs and Selected Tributaries, and the Savannah River at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, 1995 by Timothy H. Lanier Pdf